Sri Siksastakam

श्री शिक्षाष्टकम् (चैतन्यमहाप्रभु)

Śrī Śikṣāṣṭakam (Caitanya Mahāprabhu)

Die acht Unterweisungen von Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu (1486-1535) erschien vor 500 Jahren in Navadvīpa, India (Westbengalen) in einer goldenen Ausstrahlung als Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, der Goldene Avatar, und wird als Inkarnation der Höchsten Persönlichkeit Gottes, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, angesehen.

Seine weltweite Saṇkīrtan Bewegung hat das Ziel, das Singen des heiligen Namens des Herrn zu verbreiten (der Prozess der Selbstverwirklichung für dieses Zeitalter, das meditieren über den Klang des Maha-Mantras) Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare).

Er überließ uns nur acht Verse, genannt Śikṣāṣṭaka, in denen seine Lehren und seine Grundsätze offenbart sind. Diese absolut wertvollen Gebete sind hier übersetzt:


Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
O mein Herr, wann werden meine Augen mit Tränen der Liebe geschmückt sein,
die unaufhaltsam fließen, wenn ich Deinen heiligen Namen lobpreise?  [Text 6]

"Die Lehren Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanyas"
A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda
Original version 1975


 श्री शिक्षाष्टकम्
Śrī Śikṣāṣṭakam

चेतो-दर्पण-मार्जनं भव-महा-दावाग्नि-निर्वापणं
श्रेयः-कैरव-चन्द्रिका-वितरणं विद्या-वधू-जीवनम्
आनन्दाम्बुधि-वर्धनं प्रति-पदं पूर्णामृतास्वादनं
सर्वात्म-स्नपनं परं विजयते श्री-कृष्ण-सण्कीर्तनम् ॥१॥

ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ
sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṇkīrtanam ॥1॥

Höchster Ruhm dem śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, der das Herz von allen seit undenkbaren Zeiten angesammelten Unreinheiten befreit und das Feuer des bedingten Daseins, der sich wiederholenden Geburten und Tode, löscht. Die Saṅkīrtan-Bewegung ist die größte Segnung für die Menschheit, da sie die Strahlen des segenspendenden Mondes verbreitet. Sie ist das Leben allen transzendentalen Wissens; sie läßt den Ozean der transzendentalen Glückseligkeit ständig anschwellen und befähigt uns, den reinen Nektar zu kosten, nach dem wir uns seit Ewigkeiten sehnen. (1)

नाम्नामकारि बहुधा निज-सर्व-शक्तिस्
तत्रार्पिता नियमितः स्मरणे न कालः
एतादृशी तव कृपा भगवन्ममापि
दुर्दैवमीदृशमिहाजनि नानुरागः ॥२॥

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ ॥2॥

O mein Herr, Dein heiliger Name allein kann den Lebewesen allen Segen spenden, und deshalb hast du Millionen und Abermillionen von Namen wie Kṛṣṇa, Govinda und Vasudeva. In diese transzendentalen Namen hast Du all Deine transzendentalen Energien eingehen lassen. Es gibt nicht einmal starre Regeln für das Chanten dieser Namen. O mein Herr, in Deiner Güte hast Du es uns durch Deinen heiligen Namen so leicht gemacht, Dir näher zu kommen, aber unglückselig wie ich bin, verspüre ich keine Anziehung zu ihnen. (2)

तृणादऽपि सुनीचेन
तरोरऽपि सहिष्णुना
अमानिना मानदेन
कीर्तनीयः सदा हरिः ॥३॥

tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ ॥3॥

Man soll den heiligen Namen des Herrn in aller Demut chanten, sich niedriger dünken als das Stroh in der Gasse, duldsamer als ein Baum, frei von allem falschen Geltungsbewußtsein und immer bereit, anderen Ehre (Respekt) zu erweisen (ohne Verehrung für sich selbst zu erwarten). In solcher Geisteshaltung kann man den Namen des Herrn ohne Unterlaß chanten. (3)

न धनं न जनं न सुन्दरीं
कवितां वा जगदीश कामये
मम जन्मनि जन्मनीश्वरे
भवताद् भक्तिर् अहैतुकी त्वयि ॥४॥

na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ
kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye
mama janmani janmanīśvare
bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi ॥4॥

O allmächtiger Herr, ich trachte nicht nach Reichtum, noch begehre ich schöne Frauen, noch ersehne ich eine große Anzahl Anhänger. Ich wünsche mir nichts anderes als Dir grundlos und voller Hingabe - Geburt auf Geburt - dienen zu dürfen. (4)

अयि नन्द-तनुज किङ्करं
पतितं मां विषमे भवाम्बुधौ
कृपया तव पाद-पङ्कज-
स्थित-धूली-सदृशं विचिन्तय ॥५॥

ayi nanda-tanuja kiṅkaraṁ
patitaṁ māṁ viṣame bhavāmbudhau
kṛpayā tava pāda-paṅkaja-
sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaṁ vicintaya ॥5॥

O Sohn des Maharaja Nanda [Kṛṣṇa], ich bin Dein ewiger Diener; aber dennoch bin ich auf irgendeine Weise in den Ozean der Geburten und Tode gefallen. Bitte, hebe mich aus diesem Ozean des Todes und gib mir als Staubkörnchen einen Platz bei Deinen Lotosfüßen. (5)

नयनं गलदश्रु-धारया
वदनं गद्गद-रुद्धया गिरा
पुलकैर्निचितं वपुः कदा
तव-नाम-ग्रहणे भविष्यति ॥६॥

nayanaṁ galad-aśru-dhārayā
vadanaṁ gadgada-ruddhayā girā
pulakair nicitaṁ vapuḥ kadā
tava-nāma-grahaṇe bhaviṣyati ॥6॥

O mein Herr, wann werden meine Augen mit Tränen der Liebe geschmückt sein, die unaufhaltsam fließen, wenn ich Deinen heiligen Namen chante (lobpreise)? Wann wird mir die Stimme ersticken, wenn ich Deinen heiligen Namen ausspreche, und wann werden sich beim Sprechen Deines Namens alle Härchen auf meinem Körper sträuben? (6)

युगायितं निमेषेण
चक्षुषा प्रावृषायितम्
शून्यायितं जगत्सर्वं
गोविन्द-विरहेण मे ॥७॥

yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṇa
cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitam
śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ
govinda-viraheṇa me ॥7॥

O Govinda, die Trennung von Dir läßt mir einen Augenblick wie zwölf Jahre und mehr erscheinen, und Tränen strömen von meinen Augen wie Regengüsse. In Deiner Abwesenheit fühle ich mich in dieser Welt verloren und leer. (7)

आश्लिष्य वा पाद-रतां पिनष्टु माम्
अदर्शनान्मर्म-हताम्-हतां करोतु वा
यथा तथा वा विदधातु लम्पटो
मत्प्राण-नाथस्तु स एव नापरः ॥८॥

āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām
adarśanān marma-hatām-hatāṁ karotu vā
yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo
mat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ ॥8॥

Außer Krishna kenne ich keinen anderen Herrn, und Er wird es immer bleiben - auch wenn Seine Umarmung rauh ist oder Er mir das Herz bricht, da Er nicht vor mir gegenwärtig ist. Ihm steht es gänzlich frei zu tun, was Ihm beliebt, doch immer wird Er mein angebeteter Herr bleiben - geschehe, was da will. (8)

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prabhura 'śikṣāṣṭaka'-śloka yei paḍe, śune
kṛṣṇe prema-bhakti tāra bāḍe dine-dine |

Wenn jemand diese acht unterweisenden Verse von Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu liest, aufsagt oder hört, nimmt seine ekstatische Liebe und Hingabe zu Kṛṣṇa mit jedem Tag zu. (CC. Antya 20.65)


Gaurahari Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu (1486-1535)


Die Kraft des Heiligen Namens

Das Prema-Vivarta (20. Kap.) von Srila Jagadananda Pandit enthält eine wundervolle Beschreibung der Macht des heiligen Namens Krishnas, die von Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu persönlich stammt.

"Eines Tages brach Krishnadasa sein langes Schweigen und stellte im Hause von Kasi Misra Shri Caitanya eine Frage: "Wenn Du mir gütigerweise erlaubst zu fragen, dann sag mir bitte etwas über die unbegrenzten und wunderbaren Herrlichkeiten des heiligen Namens, das selbst Lord Siva und Lord Brahma nicht vertraut ist."

Shri Chaitanya antwortete: "Die Fähigkeiten des heiligen Namens sind wie ein sich ewig-erweiternder uferloser Ozean. Sogar Shri Krishna selbst kennt Seine Grenzen nicht, was zu sprechen von gewöhnlichen Sterblichen. Ich will deshalb nur das wiederholen, was in den Schriften steht. Wenn du mit rechtem Vertrauen hörst, kannst du von dieser sorgenvollen materiellen Welt befreit werden."

"Der heilige Name ist fähig Sünden in nichts aufzulösen und Hindernisse zu beseitigen. Der Name lindert Leiden und dämpft die Nachteile, welche für das Kali-yuga so charakteristisch sind. Er erlöst die unerlösbaren Bewohner der höllischen Planeten und annulliert die unvermeidbaren sündhaften Reaktionen, welche von früheren Geburten (in dieses Leben) mitgetragen wurden. Der heilige Name reinigt Vergehen und ist die Quintessenz aller transzendenten Tätigkeiten, leuchtender als die Veden.

Die Schriften erklären das Chanten (lobpreisen) zur höchsten spirituellen Aktivität, höher als Pilgerreisen zu den heiligsten Plätzen. Der heilige Name ist allmächtig und segnet den Chanter mit unvorstellbarem Glück. Es ist Sein Wesen, dass Er einem dazu erhebt, göttliche Glückseligkeit zu erleben.

Ein Chanter (des heiligen Namens) ist keine gewöhnliche Person, denn er verdient es, von der ganzen Welt gelobt zu werden. Für die gefallenen Seelen ist der heilige Name das einzige Mittel zur Rettung, und Er ist immer verehrungswürdig, denn Er bietet die viel gewünschte Befreiung, erhebt einem zum höchsten spirituellen Wohnort und segnet den Chanter mit transzendenter Liebe zu Gott, Shri Hari. Die sruti und smrti enthält zahllose Beweise für die erhabene Position des heiligen Namens. Er ist das höchste Ziel allen spirituellen Strebens und die Hauptrichtung der Bhakti-Strömung (des hingebungsvollen Dienstes)."

 

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Commentary by A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda:
Lecture Excerpt -- Bombay, November 7, 1970 : 701107LE.BOM:

Lord Caitanya gave us eight stanzas of His mission, what He wanted to do. They are explained in eight stanzas, and they are known as Sikṣāṣṭaka. Sikṣā means instruction, and āṣṭaka means eight. So in eight stanzas He has finished his instruction, and His next disciples, the six Gosvāmīs, have explained them in volumes of books. So Lord Caitanya says the subject is paraṁ́ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṇkīrtanam: all glories to the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra or Kṛṣṇa saṇkīrtan movement. All glories. All victory. How it is victory, all victory? That He explains, that ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam. If you chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, then the dirty things which have accumulated in your heart due to material contamination will be cleared off.

He gives the example that the heart is just like a mirror. If on the mirror there are heaps of dust accumulated, then one cannot see the real face by the reflection of the mirror. Therefore, it should be cleansed. So in our present conditional life, our heart is overloaded with so much dust accumulated due to our material association from time immemorial. So if we chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, then the dust will be removed. Even not immediately, it will begin to be removed. And as soon as the mirror of the heart is cleansed of all dust, immediately one can see the face what he is. That face means real identification. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, one will understand that he is not this body. This is our misconception. The dust means this misconception, accepting this body or the mind as self. Actually, we are not this body or the mind. We are spirit soul. So as soon as we can understand that we are not these bodies, immediately bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam. The blazing fire of material conditions, or the blazing fire of material miseries, immediately becomes dissipated. No more misery. Ahaṁ brahmāsmi (I am spirit soul).

As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā. Immediately one understands his real identification as spirit soul, he becomes joyful. We are not joyful. Due to our material contact, we are always full of anxieties. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, we shall immediately come to the stage of joyful life. Bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam. And this is called liberation. When one becomes joyful, free from all anxieties, that stage is actual liberation because every living creature, the spirit soul is by nature joyful. The whole struggle for existence is that he is searching after that joyful stage of life, but he missing the point. Therefore, in every effort for joyful life we are being defeated. This constant defeat can be overcome immediately by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. That is the effect of this transcendental vibration. And after liberation, after being joyful, the material joys decreases. Whatever joy you want to enjoy, that decreases.

Take, for example, for eating. If we want to eat some nice foodstuff, after eating a few morsels of food we do not like to take any more. That means here in the material world, whatever joy we accept, it will decrease. But spiritual joy, Lord Caitanya says ānandāmbudhi-vardhanam, the spiritual joy is just like ocean. But here in the material world, we have got experience that ocean does not increase. Ocean remains within its limit. But the ocean of spiritual joyfulness increases. Anandāmbudhi-vardhanam. Sreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇam. How it increases? He is giving the example like the moon, rising moon. As the waxing moon. As the moon from the day of new moon, new moon night, the first day it is just like a small curved line. But second day, third day it increases, gradually it increases. Similarly, the spiritual life, the spiritual joyful life increases like the moon rays day after day, day after day, till it reaches the full moon night, yes. So ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam, śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇam vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam. And the life then becomes full of knowledge because spiritual life means eternal life, full of bliss and full of knowledge. So we increase our volumes of joy because proportionately we increase the volume of our knowledge. Sreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ́ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam, ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ́. It is just like a ocean, but still it increases. Anandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ́, sarvātma-snapanaṁ́. It is so nice that once situated in this state of life, one thinks that "I am fully satisfied." Sarvātma-snapanaṁ́. Just like if one takes bath dipping into the water, he feels refreshed immediately. Similarly, this spiritual life increasing joys day after day makes one feeling that he is fully satisfied. (The Science of Self Realization : SSR 8: Attaining Perfection : Knowing the Purpose of Life)

Lord Chaitanya Mahāprabhu recommended: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam. Mārjanam means "cleanse," and darpaṇam means "mirror." The heart is a mirror. It is like a camera. Just as a camera takes all kinds of pictures of days and nights, so also our heart takes pictures and keeps them in an unconscious state [Subconsciousness]. Psychologists know this. The heart takes so many pictures, and therefore it becomes covered. We do not know when it has begun, but it is a fact that because there is material contact, our real identity is covered. Therefore ceto-darpana-marjanam: one has to cleanse his heart. (SP: Science of Selfrealization)

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya
Mahāprabhu (1486-1535)

And when the heart is cleansed, then a person becomes eligible for being freed from the clutches of maya, or the materialistic way of life. He understands that he is not this body-that he’s a spirit soul, and that his business is therefore different from merely material concerns. He thinks, “Now I am engaged only in seeking these bodily comforts of life. These are not at all essential, because my body will change. Today, since I am in an American body, I think I have so many duties as an American man. Tomorrow I may be in an American dog body, and immediately my duty would change. So I can understand that these bodily concerns are not my real business. My real business is how to elevate myself-as a spirit soul-to the spiritual world, back to home, back to Godhead.”

When the mind is completely washed of all material contamination, the pure consciousness acts. The sound vibration from the spiritual sky can automatically cleanse all material contaminations, as confirmed by Caitanya Mahāprabhu: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. We need only take the advice of Lord Chaitanya Mahāprabhu and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra to cleanse the mind of all material contamination, and this may be considered the summary of this difficult verse. As soon as the whole material contamination is washed away by this process of chanting, all desires and reactions to material activities become immediately vanquished, and real life, peaceful existence, begins. In this age of Kali it is very difficult to adopt the yogic process mentioned in this verse.

Unless one is very expert in such yoga, the best course is to adopt the ways and means of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṇkīrtanam. Thus one can gloriously become freed from all material contamination by the simple process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare. Just as life in this material world has its beginning in material sound, similarly a spiritual life has its beginning in this spiritual sound vibration. (SB 4.23.17 pp)

In His Śikṣāṣṭaka, Lord Caitanya describes the progressive benefits of chanting Hare Krishna. First, ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. The beginning is cleansing the heart, because we are impure on account of dirty things within our heart, accumulated lifetime after lifetime in the animalistic way of life. So everything-advancement of spiritual life, culture, tapasya-is meant to cleanse the heart. And in this process of chanting the maha-mantra, the first installment of benefit is the cleansing of the heart. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam.

Specifically, chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra purifies one, and this chanting is therefore recommended by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam: [Cc. Antya 20.12] by chanting the names of Krishna, the mirror of the heart is cleansed, and the devotee loses interest in everything external. When one is influenced by the external energy of the Lord, his heart is impure. When one’s heart is not pure, he cannot see how things are related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Idam hi visvam bhagavan ivetarah (Bhag. 1.5.20). He whose heart is purified can see that the whole cosmic manifestation is but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but he whose heart is contaminated sees things differently. Therefore by sat-sanga, or association with devotees, one becomes perfectly pure in heart. (SB 4.24.59 pp)

In this way the person who chants Hare Kṛṣṇa purifies his consciousness. Then his materialistic activity is stopped. He knows, "This is simply a waste of time. I must act spiritually." That is knowledge, which comes from cleansing the heart (ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]). The illusion of wrongly working on the basis of the bodily concept of life is overcome simply by the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra. This is the first installment of benefit from chanting. (SP: Civilization and Transcendence)

Original Verses: Caitanya Caritamṛta, Antya Lila Chapter 20
Verses 12, 16, 21, 29, 32, 36, 39, 47, and 65;
Śrī Śikṣāṣṭakam, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī


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